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12 Apr 2003
When you start watching gardening programmes (especially the relatively staid Gardener's World), you know that you're getting older. I don't even have a garden (just a rather small balcony), but I hit 30 and found myself starting to take an unhealthy interest in garden centres and not changing channels when the gardening programmes came on. It's a mystery, but as far as I can tell, it's an inevitable part of the aging process. Like wanting to wear slippers, and thinking the music's too loud, the gardening gene gets activated at a certain age and there's nothing you can do about it.
There's one consolation for your age-activated gardening genes making themselves felt: Mony Monty Don is now presenting Gardener's World. I like Mony Monty Don. He's a straight-forward, intelligent and non-patronizing presenter, and doesn't mug to camera or have any irritating gimmicks. There's also the fact that he's a rather irresistible combination of practical, strong and earthy but sensitive -- not to mention quite good-looking.
I remember watching 'Fork to Fork', which he presented, and seeing him gently cupping a pear on one of his trees while talking about how lovely and ripe and plump it was. I could picture women of a certain age (and probably a few men) all over the country turning to their partners and saying, "Is it me, or is it a bit hot in here?"
Update. I don't know what was wrong with my typing brain today. Original spellings left so that I can look an idiot in perpetuity.
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I must be immature as I have no urges to garden, I turn off garden shows immediately and avoid garden centres with as much energy and cunning as I avoid ring shops and baby centres.
BTW Are there any baby bsags?
by dave murphy @ 13/04/2003 2:04 am • Permalink •
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No baby Bsags as yet - it never quite seems to be the right time (I suspect that there isn't such a thing - you have to have a baby without thinking too much about it, or you'd never do it).
And be on your guard - the gardening gene can strike unexpectedly at any moment. One minute you'll be thinking about going to the pub with your mates, and the next you'll find yourself looking at an azalea and wondering if you can take a cutting.
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Is he Monty's brother?----- Doh! I'm not doing too well with typos lately. Too many projects on the go, and too few brain cells to go around.
by bsag @ 12/04/2003 10:04 pm • Permalink •